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Nick O'Malley

Nick O'Malley

Nick O'Malley is National Environment and Climate Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is also a senior writer and a former US correspondent.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Murray Watt.

Albanese charges ‘Mr Fix-It’ with racing through green law overhaul

The need to counter environmental decay is contending with Labor’s mission to speed up approvals to meet its climate and housing targets.

  • Paul Sakkal and Nick O'Malley

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Allan Lancaster had a battery installed at home in Truganina, Melbourne, installed after the rebates began.

‘Off like a rocket’: Battery rebate prompts massive rooftop power surge

The equivalent of South Australia’s Hornsdale big battery is being installed every 8.7 days after the rebates began.

  • Nick O'Malley
Macquarie Marshes

‘Calamity of compounding errors’ cuts off environmental flows in Murray-Darling Basin

State and federal environmental water holders have suspended environmental flows as they investigate their water management.

  • Nick O'Malley
Matt Kean, the former Liberal NSW treasurer now serving as chair of the Climate Change Authority.

How do you decarbonise an economy? Line by line, says Matt Kean

The Liberal Party true believer finds himself at the centre of one of the Albanese Labor government’s most confounding policy challenges.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dolphins like this one which died in July are among the victims of the toxic bloom.

As South Australia’s toxic bloom lingers, politicians ramp up response

The algal bloom that has devastated multiple marine species shows no signs of dissipating.

  • Nick O'Malley
Sections of the Great Barrier Reef suffered their largest annual decline in coral cover due to bleaching during 2024.

Great Barrier Reef suffers record coral decline, mass bleaching

Year upon year of marine heatwaves are battering the Great Barrier Reef, the most recent survey of coral coverage shows.

  • Nick O'Malley
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What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

  • Nick O'Malley
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Tuesday.

Go big on climate plans, Labor MPs tell Albanese, as net zero fight rages

The MPs demanded ambition as leading economist Ross Garnaut said Australia’s renewable energy transition was “sick”.

  • Nick O'Malley, Paul Sakkal and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The largest hailstone recorded in Australia was 16 centimetres long and hit Yalboroo, north of Mackay in 2021.

Brace yourself for ‘giant hail’ as storms increase along east coast

As the atmosphere becomes warmer and wetter, some Australian cities will face more hailstorms while others will be hit with larger stones as well.

  • Nick O'Malley

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

  • Nick O'Malley